Cilegon Quarantine authorities foiled attempts to smuggle 384 birds
On Tuesday 20 August, the Cilegon Quarantine authorities foiled attempts to smuggle 384 birds (including sunbirds and the Greater green leafbird) at Merak Port, Banten. The birds would have been smuggled from Pekanbaru to Central Java.
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Authorities stopped the smuggling of more than 700 birds from Lampung to Jakarta
On August 15, police and Lampung Quarantine authorities stopped the smuggling of more than 700 birds from Lampung to Jakarta at Bakaheuni Port; species included white eyes and prinias. In the afternoon of 16 August, after undergoing a health check, all birds confiscated at Bakaheuni Port were released into the wild by BKSDA, Lampung Quarantine…
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FLIGHT helped Riau Police arrested online traders selling protected animals through Facebook
On July 30, FLIGHT helped Riau Police arrested online traders selling protected animals through Facebook in Pekanbaru, Sumatra. The animals that were rescued were 3 deer (Tragulus), 2 baby crocodiles, 20 Red-breasted Parakeet (Psittacula alexandri), 3 blue-rumped parrot (Psittinus cyanurus), 1 long-tailed macaque, and 1 slow loris. This arrest was successful because of an investigation…
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More than 950 of seized birds back into the wild
On July 11, Lampung Quarantine authorities assisted by FLIGHT, stopped the smuggling of 969 birds; species included white eyes, and prinia from Lampung to Jakarta at Bakaheuni Port, Lampung. Birds were crammed into crates and stuffed in the trunks of two buses. The birds would have been sold in markets and spent the rest of their lives…
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Thousands of seized birds back into the wild
On July 7, FLIGHT helped the Cilegon Quarantine in preventing the smuggling of 60 prinia birds from Sumatra to Java via Merak port. On the same day, the Lampung Police and Quarantine succeeded in stopping the smuggling of more than 2700 birds; species included white eyes, black-naped orioles, sunbirds, prinia, and Myna. at Bakaheuni Port,…
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FLIGHT helped quarantine authorities to save 400 birds from being smuggled via Bakaheuni port and Merak port
On July 1, FLIGHT helped quarantine authorities to save 400 birds from being smuggled, including sunbirds and prinia, who would have been smuggled via Bakaheuni port, Lampung and Merak Port, Banten. Look at how birds are crammed above the wheel arch in the bus. In the same day, the Cilegon Quarantine and West Java BKSDA,…
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FLIGHT wrote to Lion Air and Citilink airlines to ask them to stop transporting songbirds
Today, FLIGHT wrote to Lion Air and Citilink airlines to ask them to stop transporting songbirds. Our investigations show that these two airlines transport songbirds illegally. Birds are kept in narrow and small cages during their trips. In Indonesia, there is currently a songbird crisis. The large songbird bird trade in Indonesia, which involves illegal…
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More than 850 confiscated birds have been released into the wild
On June 18, more than 850 confiscated birds have been released into the wild by the Lampung BKSDA, Lampung Quarantine Authority, supported by FLIGHT. The Lampung Quarantine Authority, assisted by FLIGHT, succeeded in preventing more than 850 birds from being smuggled from Sumatra to Java via Bakaheuni Port, Lampung. The Executive Director of FLIGHT, Marison…
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